[631] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: my opinion on dartmouth - brand names
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Craighead)
Sat May 12 19:03:11 2001
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Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 19:07:37 -0400
From: Matt Craighead <craighea@MIT.EDU>
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Wally wrote:
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> > which makes me wonder - why did harvard suffer all kinds of bad press
> > over the living wage incidents the past month or so when caving in
> > would have been less expensive in terms of publicity and in terms of
> > money... any ideas?
>
> Because everyone knows they're a bunch of spoiled rich kids living off
> Daddy's trust fund and Mommy's connections on the City Council, so we
> don't expect them to be reasonable. Everyone thinks MIT kids are too
> caught up in work to do anything but problem sets; that's why it comes as
> such a shock.
How about, because of the moral principle involved? After giving in to
the PSLM, Harvard has lost pretty much any moral legitimacy it may have
ever had.
--
Matt Craighead, MIT Class of 2002
President, MIT Objectivist Club
http://web.mit.edu/objectivism/www/
